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    und Dietleib (Biterolf and Dietlieb) is an anonymous Middle High German heroic poem concerning the heroes Biterolf of Toledo and his son Dietleib of Styria...
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    giant, the armour finally passes into Dietrich's possession. Biterolf and Dietleib is a heroic epic transmitted in the Ambraser Heldenbuch. It is closely...
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    hoard of the Nibelungen. The second half of the heroic poem Biterolf und Dietleib (between 1250 and 1300) features a war between the Burgundian heroes of...
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    refuses to fight his kinsman Dietleib. Biterolf und Dietleib, an epic tale about Walter's brother Biterolf and his nephew Dietleib, who enter the service of...
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    that King Atli (Etzel) visits her among the Burgundians. In Biterolf und Dietleib (c. 1250), a parody of sorts of the heroic world, Brunhild is shown to...
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    giants or dwarfs, it is grouped together with the similar poem Biterolf und Dietleib as a separate group of Dietrich poems. Scholars count four or five versions...
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    sister of Dietleib, one of Dietrich's heroes. Laurin betrays the heroes and imprisons them, but they are able to defeat him and save Dietleib's sister....
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    Völsunga saga Lied vom Hürnen Seyfrid Rosengarten zu Worms Biterolf und Dietleib Operas Der Ring des Nibelungen Das Rheingold Die Walküre Siegfried Götterdämmerung...
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    Dietleib and Walther both receive a garland of roses from Kriemhild. Image from a text of the Berlin Rosengarten play, SB Berlin mgf 800, Bl. 2v....
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    which it treats the heroes Viðga, Þétleifr Danskr (Middle High German: Dietleib von Stîre) and Heimir: Heimir, portrayed as Swabian, is a mostly negative...
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    Witige accompanies Dietrich, Hildebrand, and Dietleib into Laurin's kingdom and is captured. Dietleib arranges for their escape and the destruction of...
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    depictions of triads of figures, among them the heroes Dietrich, Siegfried, and Dietleib von Steiermark, as well as three giants and three giantesses labeled with...
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  • reinforced each other. The smith Hertrich dwells there in Biterolf und Dietleib. Arastein Old Norse: Arastein The name means "eagle cliff". After having...
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  • *leuhma- ("to shine, to flash"). Widige's helmet. According to Biterolf und Dietleib, the helmet has been made by Wayland. Mal Middle High German: Mâl Probably...
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    Dietrich cycle it includes Dietrichs Flucht, Rabenschlacht, Biterolf und Dietleib, Ortnit (A) and Wolfdietrich (A). The manuscript was commissioned sometime...
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    (incomplete, manuscript d) Kudrun (sole surviving manuscript) Biterolf und Dietleib (sole surviving manuscript) Ortnit (manuscript A) Wolfdietrich A (sole...
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    sought to disinherit their brother. Widsith Þiðreks saga, Biterolf und Dietleib, Wolfdietrich, Heldenbuch-Prosa Hadawardus Latin: Hadawardus Wilhelm Grimm...
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  • Gothic bals ("white"), referring to the mark on the horse's forehead. Dietleib von Steier's horse, which is from the same stud as Dietrich von Bern's...
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    calling for the aid King Imian of Hungary, Witege, Heime, and Biterolf and Dietleib. The heroes go to Muter and arrange combat with Nitger. There are eleven...
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  • also similar to Witzlân of Bohemia, an enemy of Etzel's in Biterolf und Dietleib. Gerhard Eis argued that the source for the poem is a Low German oral tale...
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    Bern's warriors; in Biterolf und Dietleib, he is the brother of Wolfwin and Wolfbrand. Nibelungenlied, Biterolf und Dietleib, Alpharts Tod Rienolt Middle...
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    combats in the Rosengarten zu Worms, Die Rabenschlacht, and Biterolf und Dietleib. Þiðreks saga Ivar the Boneless Old Norse: Ívarr hinn Beinlausi, Old English:...
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    Theodoric the Great See Dietrich von Bern. Thether See Diether. Thetleif See Dietleib von Steier. Thetmar See Dietmar. Theuderic I Latin: Theudericus, Old English:...
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    Biterolf in Biterolf und Dietleib and aids Dietrich von Bern in Die Rabenschlacht. Nibelungenlied, Rabenschlacht, Biterolf und Dietleib Assi See Ambri and Assi...
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    meaning "tyrant, choleric person." The father of Dietleib von Steier. According to Biterolf und Dietleib, he is originally from Toledo, Spain. He goes to...
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    but possibly also "snake" or "dragon". The mother of Dietleib. Þiðreks saga, Biterolf und Dietleib Dietlind2 Middle High German: Dietlint See Dietlind1...
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    Biterolf und Dietleib, he leads Attila's armies against the Poles. Dietrichs Flucht, Rabenschlacht, Alpharts Tod, Biterolf und Dietleib Gotelind Middle...
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    by Hartmut and Ludwig. She eventually marries Hartmut. In Biterolf und Dietleib, Herbort relates how he abducted Hildeburg, daughter of Ludwig and sister...
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